MCAT CARS Skill Builder LiveOnline
Master the CARS section with 15 hours of expert live instruction!
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Reading Comprehension
Improve passage understanding and extraction of key information
Critical Thinking
Develop your analytical
and logical reasoning skills
Personalized Strategies
Discover individualized
approaches that work best for you
Master CARS with Expert-led
Instruction and Targeted Practice
22 practice passages
- Includes 77 questions to practice application of skills learned in class
4 homework assignments including
8 readings
- 4 readings with full annotations provided
- 4 readings with personalized teacher feedback
15 hours of expert live instruction
- Learn from experienced instructors
2 comprehensive books
- CARS Skill Builder Reader
- CARS Skill Builder Class Manual
20 in-class reading exercises
- Focused on reading skills tested on CARS
Highly Specialized Instructors
Meet the instructors who made the cut to teach our CARS course.
Anthony K.
CARS Instructor
Tony taught at the university and high school level for thirteen years and received seven teaching awards from local, national, and international entities. He describes his classroom as alive and alert, near the peak of the Yerkes-Dodson curve.
40+ Years of Proven CARS Strategies Summarized in 15 Hours
- Introduction/Goals of the Course/Materials/Homework
- What is Active Reading? Why and How
- The Moving Parts of a Text
- Exercise: Moving Parts
- Engage With the Text
- Exercise: Engaging With the Text
- Reading for Logical Structure
- Exercise: Reading for Logical Structure
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- Practice Passage
- Vocabulary Log
- What is an Argument?: Claims and Evidence, Identifying Claims (markers/words), Identifying Evidence (markers/words)
- Annotation
- Exercise: Construct Your Own Argument
- Paraphrasing as a Tool: When and Why
- Exercise: Identifying and Paraphrasing Claims
- Exercise: Synthesizing the Author’s Argument
- Exercise: Identifying and Assessing Evidence
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- How Does Identifying Claims and Evidence Help You Answer MCAT CARS Questions?
- Practice Passages
- Why Do Authors Write?: Passage Purposes
- Exercise: Defining the Author’s Intent
- Reading for Author’s Tone: Tone Indicators, Strength of Tone
- Exercise: Strength of Tone
- Defining the Author’s Point of View: Adding up Tone and Purpose, Author’s Point of View, Active Reading – Synthesizing and Predicting
- Exercise: Defining the Author’s Point of View
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- How Does Identifying Purpose, Tone, and Point of View Help You Answer MCAT CARS questions?
- Practice Passages
- What Makes a Passage Difficult to Understand?
- What Strategies Can You Use to Manage It?
- Exercise: Managing Dense Detail
- Exercise: Managing Multiple Points of View
- Exercise: Managing Abstract Arguments
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- Practice passages
- Moving Forward: Your CARS Study Plan
- Suggested Supplemental Reading List
- Active Reading Review
- Exercise: Identifying the Primary Focus
- Exercise: Dealing With Abstraction
- Exercise: Dealing With Multiple Points of View
- Exercise: Think Like a Test Writer
- Practice Passages
Full Product Details
- 15 hours of expert live instruction
- 20 in-class reading exercises
- 22 practice passages
- 4 homework assignments
- Includes 8 readings
- 2 comprehensive books
- CARS Skill Builder Reader
- CARS Skill Builder Class Manual
CARS Skill Builder LiveOnline Schedules
